The Mondo Research Laboratories. Drearily drudging through the dark depths of mondo and shockumentary cinema.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Naked and Cruel Film Screening

Please join us for a free film screening of a custom composite print of Bitto Albertini's Nudo e Crudele (aka Naked and Cruel) (1984) on Tuesday, August the 18th, 2015, in London.

The mondo film, a genre-defying sensual assault on notions
of cinematic acceptability, combining stylistic shock cuts with a
sensationalist rejection of taboo, is all too often maligned and censored,
suppressed and excluded from public consciousness. Coyly concocting a blended paradox of uncensored, unflinching film-making and the utmost fakery, the mondo exposes the hypocritical corruption of traditional
documentary and ethnographic modes of truth production by paradoxically being
both far more and far less honest than those stifling styles of cinema the world has deemed
to be more palatable, pushing the resultant illusory binary of non/fiction through a self-referential
reductio ad absurdum parody of form. Naked
and Cruel: Pathological Operations Upon the Mondo Corpus will thrust the
messy mondo cycle back into the mind’s eye, reveling in the ribald lechery and
fetid gore on display for a sleaze-drenched afternoon descent into the bowels
of shockumentary cinema.

For the first time on the big screen, The Mondo Research
Laboratories will present a custom composite print of Bitto Albertini's mondo
extravaganza Nudo e crudele (aka Naked and Cruel) (1984) with scenes formerly
censored from the English version now added back in, presenting scenes
composing a cosmopolitan smorgasbord of worldly delights pivoting around the
twin frenzies of feeding and fucking.